Sunday, 6 January 2013

Weekend Cooking - Recipe Journals Part One

Every time Beth posts about her cookery journals I am always quite envious and it was the same with this week's post. With that in mind I turned to my own journal which I know I have mentioned before in an earlier post.

Not long after we moved in together I purchased a very plain notebook from the newsagents opposite the supermarket in Sutton where we lived at the time. The notebook was to use for the recipes and cooking notes I had scattered about the kitchen.

That was in 1993 and since then I have added to the collection -
those cut out of the newspaper, those that have been scribbled on a note paper
by former colleagues and one or two from my Mum. Not to mention the recipes
that I have stumbled, across along the way.

The notebook is
very functional; there are pencil crossings as I have added ingredients to a
dish when making it. I have also added each year a note about when & where
I have bought the Turkey
for Christmas, how many it was feeding and the price. Now, just why I do that I
have no idea, even my own Mum thinks it’s a bit obsessive as she doesn't do it.

So, it occurs to me that this old and battered notebook, which is almost full is 20 years old, and perhaps should be laid to rest and my thoughts are now turning to a new note book or journal.

I plan to give it a bit of thought this week, so stay tuned for next week's post.

What a nice tradition. I have 2 notebooks - just plain old spiral notebooks like kids use for school - for writing down my own recipes and 2 big 3-ring binders for pasting in clipped recipes. Plus over 10 years' of Cooking Light magazines and an Excel spreadsheet for favorite recipes and recipes I want to try! Kind of a large, varied system!

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I am a Surrey girl, who is very proud of her roots, which go back almost 300 years in Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire. I currently live in the West Country of England, but Surrey is always home! I am also half Italian and thus have an interest in Italian culture and genealogy.

After a career in pharmacy management spanning more than 20 years, I made the decision to look at my options as to where my professional life was heading. I wanted to expand my work portfolio within the training and writing arena; to utilise my historical and research skills along with other qualifications and years of experience. I created The Book of Me, Written by You back in the Autumn of 2012. It threads together the focus of my interests and qualifications. Enabling me to encourage others to think beyond the obvious as we analyse our own lives and those of our close family members.

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